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Reflex Anoxic Seizures

How is it diagnosed?

Reflex Anoxic Seizure is often misdiagnosed as breath holding, temper tantrums or as epilepsy. The associated marked pallor of the skin has led to these attacks being called Pallid Infantile Syncope or White breath-holding but some people now prefer the term Reflex Asystolic Syncope.

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Medical text written October 1999 by Professor J B P Stephenson, Consultant in Paediatric Neurology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK. Last updated October 2005 by Dr W Whitehouse, Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Neurology and Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

 

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